The Black Eyed Peas Gives â(Iâve Had) The Time of My Lifeâ New Life

Will.I.Am released the Black Eyed Peasâ new single âThe Time (The Dirty Bit)â on Thursday, October 24 on his social networking site. The Black Eyed Peasâ forthcoming album is titled The Beginning, and this first single samples the chorus of the hit song â(Iâve Had) The Time of My Life,â which was featured in the movie âDirty Dancing.â The writer of â(Iâve Had) The Time of My Life,â Franke Previte calls the Black Eyed Peasâ sampling âan out-of-this-world coincidence.â Previte is excited that the pop group has made âThe Time (The Dirty Bit)â their new single especially because it comes on the heels of the release of the original demo recording of âIâve Had (The Time of My Life)â to raise money for the Patrick Swayze Pancreas Cancer Research Fund at Stanford. Previte also notes the timing of the song, with the re-emergence of âDirty Dancingâ actress Jennifer Grey as the favored contestant on ABCâs Dancing With the Stars. âWhat amazes me the most is timing,â said Previte who won an Oscar and Golden Globe for writing his hit song. âAs weâve started working to fight cancer in Patrickâs memory through the release of the original demos, first it was Jennifer coming back into the public spotlight in a big way on TV, and now the Black Eyed Peas come along and cover it-all in a matter of weeks. The Black Eyed Peas bring a whole new level of awareness to our charity efforts that we couldnât have dreamed of in a million years.â â(Iâve Had) The Time of My Lifeâ is really the song that has nine lives,â Previte goes on to say. âTo have a group like the Black Eyed Peas do it gives it lives 10, 11, and 12. It just reconfirms to me that the song is cross-generational. The song has now crossed over to the next generation in a huge way. There couldnât be any group, cooler, edgier, and more hip than the Black Eyed Peas to record it.â